Painting my sketch using Photoshop

My final sketch

I used the magic wand tool to select the parts of the artwork that I'd like to paint

I used the brush tool to paint my artwork.

 

 

This is how my artwork looked like after I painted it

Sketch of the day

Painting using Photoshop

Before I begin my next post let me just say that like Photoshop, a Blog is also very new to me. Believe it or not, this is my very first blog. So, it feels like this course is bringing me through a whole new journey full of discoveries! Hopefully one that is worth the time, energy and hard work that I am investing *coughAfordesigncough* haha!

After learning the basics of Photoshop, we learnt how to paint sketches. We were each required to pick a sketch of our choice online and copy>paste it onto our background.

When painting
1. Select the Brush Tool
2. Adjust the brush size
3. Pick the colour on the right pane
4. Start painting

* To ease the painting process, you could enlarge the picture as big as you want until the little boxes on the sketch are actually visible.

This is the painting my friend and I were working on for more than one hour of the class time. It looks easy, but it is actually a pretty tedious process, especially when it come to painting the little edges.

Photoshop 101 :)

17th May 2012

I have Photoshop installed on my laptop so I am not all that outdated, but sadly my Photoshop knowledge stops right there. bleh. It's not like I have never tried to explore Photoshop. I did. Numerous times, but I always ended up clicking every icon available on Photoshop and after 5 minutes of doing that I'd still end up with a blank grey screen :/

Then came the legendary Mr. Khairulazhar on the 17th May 2012, and he said "students, like every piece of worthy artwork, Photoshop too begins with a blank canvas!" dayumm! I ran out of the classroom in shame upon hearing that! I will never ever be able to forgive myself for not knowing the simple philosophy behind an artwork! Okay, kidding! haha! Trust me for DRAMA ;)

So here are a few steps that we learnt during our "Intro to Photoshop" Tutorial lesson


Step 1


*Click File > New

Step 2
A new window pops up allowing you to customize your canvas. A 16 inches x 20 inches, 300 pixel, white canvas was chosen. The colour was set to CMYK instead of the default RGB because unlike RGB, CMYK allows you to print your artwork once it is completed.

Step 3


Once you click okay, the new white background/canvas appears. The background cannot be edited. A new layer must be added to start work.

To create new layer, click Layer>New>Layer